Everyone is hearing the buzz word about Wikis. What actually is a wiki. The word "wiki" comes from Hawaiian language, meaning "quick" or "fast."
This video gives a good explanation.



Jimmy Wales is founder of Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, ever-expanding, and thoroughly addictive encyclopedia of the future. In this presentation, he explains how Wikipedia's collaborative system works, and why it succeeds.

(Recorded July 2005 in Oxford, UK. Duration: 20:47)



This video on Wikis in Plain English will give you an insight about how wikis work.
This is a simple explanation of how wikis work - in this case to plan a camping trip.